By Jonathan Livingston
The question has been circulating once again as to the legitimacy of our last presidential election. At least this time Ohio has some of the blame. The true source of the debate is not rested in unfounded fears from paranoid conspiracy theorists, but from the very real and public election results. Exit polls show a huge gap between the actual election results and what voters reported at exit polls.
Jeff Fisher, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 16th District, raised the flag here locally. He stated following the election that he had evidence the vote was hacked and not only knew who did it, but how they did it. He went even further to indicate this was a repeat of the 2002 primary where he accused Jeb Bush of stopping the legitimate threat of Janet Reno in the race for governor. After that, we didn’t hear much from Mr. Fisher.
Rural counties here in Florida where registered democrats far outnumbered republicans, election results showed Bush wining 4-5 times over John Kerry. Did so many democrats vote for George W? Looking at the ratio of registered democrats versus the number of voters for Bush, it almost looks like someone pulled the old switcharoo and swapped Bush’s votes with Kerry's. Would that even be possible? The sad truth is a resounding YES!
The machine that tabulated the votes was a windows based desk top. Hardly the most secure device known to man. Mine has even crashed when I try to play a CD and open a word document at the same time. Of course the software that counted the votes was heavily guarded by security measures by the good people a Diebold. The problem is that the back end of this software is exposed.
Bev Harris, founder of www.blackboxvoting.org appeared on CNBC prior to the election to show the nation how easily the vote could be manipulated. While the Diebold tabulation software is secure, it is overwhelmingly simple to go into the database and tweak the numbers. It also takes all of 30 seconds to change the results.
All a hacker would have to do is access the database (which is simply a matter of opening a Microsoft Access file) and move the numbers to favor a certain candidate. Then when Diebold’s tabulation software presented the results, it would show a clear cut win by the hacker’s favorite candidate and Diebold and Diebold’s software would be none the wiser.
If you have seen the movie “Fahrenheit 911” then you know how the film opens. Congress woman Corrine Brown was trying to pursued just one senator to join her in questioning the voting inconsistencies in the 2000 election. This Thursday, January 6th Rep. John Conyers of Detroit plans to object to the vote count in Ohio. If, as in 2000’s election, no senator agrees to let representative Conyers have the floor then once again we will have an election with enough doubts and inconsistencies to make even the least likely conspiracy theorist smell something fishy.
The question has been circulating once again as to the legitimacy of our last presidential election. At least this time Ohio has some of the blame. The true source of the debate is not rested in unfounded fears from paranoid conspiracy theorists, but from the very real and public election results. Exit polls show a huge gap between the actual election results and what voters reported at exit polls.
Jeff Fisher, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 16th District, raised the flag here locally. He stated following the election that he had evidence the vote was hacked and not only knew who did it, but how they did it. He went even further to indicate this was a repeat of the 2002 primary where he accused Jeb Bush of stopping the legitimate threat of Janet Reno in the race for governor. After that, we didn’t hear much from Mr. Fisher.
Rural counties here in Florida where registered democrats far outnumbered republicans, election results showed Bush wining 4-5 times over John Kerry. Did so many democrats vote for George W? Looking at the ratio of registered democrats versus the number of voters for Bush, it almost looks like someone pulled the old switcharoo and swapped Bush’s votes with Kerry's. Would that even be possible? The sad truth is a resounding YES!
The machine that tabulated the votes was a windows based desk top. Hardly the most secure device known to man. Mine has even crashed when I try to play a CD and open a word document at the same time. Of course the software that counted the votes was heavily guarded by security measures by the good people a Diebold. The problem is that the back end of this software is exposed.
Bev Harris, founder of www.blackboxvoting.org appeared on CNBC prior to the election to show the nation how easily the vote could be manipulated. While the Diebold tabulation software is secure, it is overwhelmingly simple to go into the database and tweak the numbers. It also takes all of 30 seconds to change the results.
All a hacker would have to do is access the database (which is simply a matter of opening a Microsoft Access file) and move the numbers to favor a certain candidate. Then when Diebold’s tabulation software presented the results, it would show a clear cut win by the hacker’s favorite candidate and Diebold and Diebold’s software would be none the wiser.
If you have seen the movie “Fahrenheit 911” then you know how the film opens. Congress woman Corrine Brown was trying to pursued just one senator to join her in questioning the voting inconsistencies in the 2000 election. This Thursday, January 6th Rep. John Conyers of Detroit plans to object to the vote count in Ohio. If, as in 2000’s election, no senator agrees to let representative Conyers have the floor then once again we will have an election with enough doubts and inconsistencies to make even the least likely conspiracy theorist smell something fishy.
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